Lord Hunt of Kings Heath: The information is not available in terms of the money collected from fathers and paid to mothers. However, information is available on the amounts collected from non-resident parents and paid to parents with care. The table below shows this information.
	
		Total maintenance collected from non-resident parents and total maintenance paid to parents with care
		
			  Total maintenance collected from non-resident parents(£ millions) Total maintenance paid to parents with care (£ millions) 
			 Great Britain   
			 2001–02 528.45 526.79 
			 2002–03 572.54 570.69 
			 2003–04 580.27 580.09 
			 Northern Ireland   
			 2001–02 11,651 11,532 
			 2002–03 12,502 12,643 
			 2003–04 12,746 12,752 
		
	
	Source: Child Support Agency and Northern Ireland Child Support Agency.
	Notes:
	1. The sums received and paid out above are taken from the agency's general ledger. These form the basis of the clients' funds account and notes to the account contained in the agency's annual report and accounts.
	There are four possible reasons why there is a discrepancy between the amount of maintenance collected and the amount of maintenance paid:
	first, where the monies have been received into the agency and are in the process of being issued by the system to the parent with care via whatever method of payment has been agreed;
	secondly, where the monies have been received and are being held by the system, awaiting the date they are due to be paid to the parent with care, when they will be paid via whatever method of payment has been agreed;
	thirdly, where the monies have been received into the new IT system—however we are unable to make payment via the system, and a clerical payment is made to the parent with care;
	finally, where the monies have been received from the non-resident parent but there is insufficient information to identify the non-resident parent or parent with care—these are investigated by a dedicated team to identify the intended recipient and then paid via one of the mechanisms above.

Lord Drayson: I am placing a list of collaborative equipment programmes (correct as at 31st March 2005) and research and technology programmes (as at June 2005) in the Library of the House. The information focuses on defence equipment programmes, including associated research and technology. Due to security constraints, a small number of programmes have been omitted from both lists. To provide a list of everything that might constitute a collaborative defence programme could only have been done incurring disproportionate time and effort.